Hazel Park Raceway will add six days to its 2014 live Thoroughbred meet, as approved Thursday by the Michigan Gaming Control Board.
The additional dates will extend the Detroit-area track’s season through Nov. 1, continuing Hazel Park’s normal schedule of racing Friday and Saturday nights. Hazel Park originally was slated to conclude its meet Saturday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – For those interested in how the controversy over the race-day use of the anti-bleeding medication furosemide is playing out on the racetrack, last Wednesday’s card at Keeneland is an interesting case study.
Four races on the nine-race card were won by horses who ran without furosemide, the legal diuretic commonly known as Lasix. Only nine horses of the 73 horses on the card did not receive the drug, and four of them competed in the same 2-year-old maiden race.
EAST BOSTON, Mass. – Members of the New England affiliate of the Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association, which has filed a placeholder application for live racing dates in 2015 and is attempting to lease Suffolk Downs, have elected a new board of directors.
Overall handle in September was down more than 10 percent nationwide, contributing to a decline in third-quarter business numbers compared to the same period in 2013, according to figures released on Saturday by Equibase.
Wagering in September in the United States totaled $693,548,821, a sharp decline of 10.55 percent from last year’s $775,340,152.
Daily Racing Form will publish full-card past performances for the Oct. 18 QIPCO Champions Day from Ascot Racecourse in national editions Saturday, Oct. 18, as part of a special agreement with Great British Racing International. Wagering on Champions Day will be available in North America at a number of advance-deposit wagering providers as well as select brick-and-mortar wagering outlets.
Trainer Mark Casse remembers exactly the day he met Ernie Semersky. It was July 8, 2012, and Casse was at Churchill Downs. Donnie Richardson, then a Churchill racing executive as well as Casse’s friend, paved the way for the introduction.
“Donnie told me he had a guy who was maybe interested in buying a horse,” Casse said.
Yes – Ernie Semersky was interested in buying a horse. In fact, he has been interested in buying lots of them.
“History of Old Friends: A Home for Retired Thoroughbreds”
Author: Rick Capone
Publisher: The History Press; soft cover; $19.99
“One stands before an exceptional Thoroughbred as before a treasured work of art. Such an animal is the creation of the sublime artist ...‘Nature.’ ”
– Charles Hatton
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky’s September race dates have once again emerged as a major source of contention.
This time, the dispute is pitting Churchill Downs, which ran its first September meet last year after wresting them from Turfway Park in 2012, against Kentucky Downs, the all-turf track near the border of Tennessee that has drawn praise over the past several years from horseplayers for its full fields and low takeout rates.
The American Gaming Association, the lobbying and public-relations arm for casinos across the United States, released a study on Tuesday purporting to show that the U.S. “gambling industry” accounted for $38 billion in tax revenue to federal, state, and local governments and has a total economic impact of $240 billion.
NEW YORK – As the New York Racing Association approaches the two-year anniversary of a takeover by the state, the company appears to be moving closer to developing a long-term plan for the re-privatization of the organization, one that must be submitted to the governor by April.
